Brain activation during autobiographical relationship episode narratives: A core conflictual relationship theme approach

摘要: Abstract The authors combined the core conflictual relationship theme (CCRT) method and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify brain regions involved in recall of autobiographical episodes, a key process psychotherapy. Relationship narratives were obtained from healthy subjects scored for CCRT themes emotion. Autobiographical personal nonautobiographical control presented block-design fMRI experiment. Personal versus showed activations anterior cingulate, precuneus, inferior middle frontal gyri, parietal lobule. These are memory, theory mind, self-referential processing, In an exploratory analysis, higher scores correlated with increased activation left hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus, occipital gyrus. This suggests that systems subserving memory processes more active when recalling relationship...